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A 24-year-old Jonathan Christopher Jone is being charged in connection with the fatal beating of his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter.

He was charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse, according to the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office.

Jones is accused of “extreme abuse and trauma” involving Ivy Yurkus, the biological daughter of his girlfriend, Amanda Yurkus.

Authorities said the abuse took place about 4:30 p.m. May 3 after Amanda Yurkus went to work. Yurkus left Ivy and her two step-siblings with Jones.

According to prosecutors, Jones abused Ivy, who became unresponsive and in “clear medical distress.”

Instead of calling 911, Jones drove the three children from Yurkus’ house to the mother's job to see if she could render aid.

According to autopsy results, Ivy died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen. Her death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.

Authorities previously said there were a number of individuals who had refused to cooperate with the investigation.

Amanda Yurkus' other children were removed from the home by Child Protective Services, according to the prosecutor’s office.
http://www.macombdaily.com/general-...h-killing-his-girlfriends-4-year-old-daughter

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Amanda Yurkus testified she doesn't believe that her live-in boyfriend, Jonathan Jones, killed her 4-year-old daughter, as prosecutors say he did by punching or kicking her in the stomach.

Yurkus, who was tearful at times during two hours of testimony, said she considered Jones as Ivy's father, adding he had been raising her the prior two to three years.

'He was her father, just not by blood,' she said, adding that Ivy referred to him as 'daddy.'

Yurkus told Assistant Macomb County Prosecutor Jean Cloud, 'I do not,' when asked if she believed Jones is responsible for Ivy's death.

She didn't respond to Cloud pointing out that an expert determined Ivy died from bleeding to death due to tears to her mesentery, which 'anchors the small intestines to the back of the abdominal wall,' according to medicinenet.com, and other evidence implicating Jones.

Judge Marco Santia ordered Jones, 24, to stand trial in Macomb County Circuit Court on charges of first-degree, felony murder and first-degree child abuse, following a two-day preliminary examination.

Defense attorney Mark Satawa said after the hearing Jones is 'very appreciative and very thankful for her (Yurkus') belief in him and her standing beside him, that he has not harmed one of her children.'

Both Jones and Yurkus' parental rights to their infant child were terminated in December following a trial. Yurkus' parental rights to her son also were terminated.
https://www.macombdaily.com/news/na...cle_1c5a49e3-26b1-5965-8843-67bcded8934e.html
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Wow ... she picked this loser over her son ?

How would you ever explain that ... sorry son ... I just don't believe he killed your sister and he needs my support ? What a loathesome bitch.
Funny how you want to talk when the boy was on his side. Simpletons who only live off drama and not the whole facts of anything. Get a life because clearly you have no life considering you want attention so nad you put your two cents in to seem important on subjects you know nothing about.
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At least the two remaining children are safe because this cow would just meet another baby abusing piece of shit and put it (him) before her children.
Shes a bigger girl so that makes her desperate in your eyes huh? Again another low life wanting attention by putting someone down you know nothing about. You know nothing of the case, oh im sorry you must have seen the evidence, you must have lived with them for those 4 years and know everything. I mean hell the way you act like you know her you had to at least been in her life right? Highly unlikely considering her circle of friends were small to make sure she had nobody like your nasty, judgmental, self centered, and childish mindset people were in her life.
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Guess what honey you’re gonna lose your man too.
Guess what hunny*, they broke up 4 months before he even got arrested. Little do you know though.
 
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Funny how you want to talk when the boy was on his side. Simpletons who only live off drama and not the whole facts of anything. Get a life because clearly you have no life considering you want attention so nad you put your two cents in to seem important on subjects you know nothing about.
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Shes a bigger girl so that makes her desperate in your eyes huh? Again another low life wanting attention by putting someone down you know nothing about. You know nothing of the case, oh im sorry you must have seen the evidence, you must have lived with them for those 4 years and know everything. I mean hell the way you act like you know her you had to at least been in her life right? Highly unlikely considering her circle of friends were small to make sure she had nobody like your nasty, judgmental, self centered, and childish mindset people were in her life.
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Guess what hunny*, they broke up 4 months before he even got arrested. Little do you know though.
shut the fuck up you sickening bitch. no one cares what you have to say. you lose all credibility when you side with a child killer. no shit your circle of friends is small. very few people would be ok with the shit you pulled. get a life and maybe next time don't be so desperate for peen. oh and PLEASE get a hysterectomy.
 
Chunk will be fine she will find a new dick, to sit on her couch while she works and babysit, to babysit her surviving child.
The murder trial of a man accused of killing his unofficial step-daughter was been delayed on the virtual eve of the proceeding because his attorney wants to withdraw from the case.

The trial of Jonathan Jones was scheduled to start Tuesday in Macomb County Circuit Court, but Judge Kathryn Viviano adjourned it last week after Jones’ attorney, Mark Satawa, said he was filing a motion to withdraw. Satawa did not provide a reason for his request.
Amanda Yurkus testified at a prior hearing she doesn't believe Jones killed her daughter. In February, Viviano ruled that prior incidents of Jones’ alleged abuse of Ivy and her brother, also a child, could be used in his trial.
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She and her sibling are the only victims here.
 
Funny how you want to talk when the boy was on his side. Simpletons who only live off drama and not the whole facts of anything. Get a life because clearly you have no life considering you want attention so nad you put your two cents in to seem important on subjects you know nothing about.
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Shes a bigger girl so that makes her desperate in your eyes huh? Again another low life wanting attention by putting someone down you know nothing about. You know nothing of the case, oh im sorry you must have seen the evidence, you must have lived with them for those 4 years and know everything. I mean hell the way you act like you know her you had to at least been in her life right? Highly unlikely considering her circle of friends were small to make sure she had nobody like your nasty, judgmental, self centered, and childish mindset people were in her life.
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Guess what hunny*, they broke up 4 months before he even got arrested. Little do you know though.
Can I get "Only Gawd kin judge" for a thousand Alex?

One more time please? Less derp more sense, 'K? :rolleyes:
 
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You know nothing of the case, oh im sorry you must have seen the evidence, you must have lived with them for those 4 years and know everything.
Well, let's see what the authorities have said about Ivy's injuries and Fat Amanda's penis, who more-than-likely, beat the shit out of the little girl.
.... the medical examiner says that the little girl’s body showed signs of previous injuries that may indicate prior abuse.

In a statement released by the Roseville Police Department, they explained the allegations of ongoing abuse. “It was reported that the child had a multitude of current injuries and evidence of past injuries that are consistent with a systematic pattern of abuse.”

... Chief Berlin said that “A blow of quite some significance or power was applied to this little girl.” He also explained that the medical examiner’s office had specified that “This had to have been a purposeful blow by somebody and this is not the result of an accident or simple fall or anything along those lines.”


Oh, here's something that slipped by, Fat Amanda says that she does not believe her piece of shit boyfriend punched Ivy to death even though she made a statement that Jonathan has beaten the little girl before against Amanda's wishes. Amanda wasn't there at the time of the deadly beating, but Ivy's brother was.
Ivy’s brother testified at a prior hearing that Jones gave a “whooping” to his sister the day she was taken to the hospital, and he and Amanda Yurkus said Jones had physically disciplined Ivy in the past, against Amanda’s wishes.
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So, @Yurkus , you can sit your self righteous, indignant fat ass right the fuck down. Amanda is defending a fucktard that has a history of beating the little child severely, who continued to do so against her wishes, and on the day of Ivy's death was witnessed doing so. For Amanda to defend her penis over her child shows she is a horrible mother with poor decision skills, which, going by the way you came in here screaming, is a family trait.
 
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A 28-year-old Roseville man was convicted Friday of first-degree felony murder and first-degree child abuse for the beating death of Ivy Yurkus, the 4-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend.

A Macomb County Circuit Court jury reached the guilty verdicts for Jonathan Jones after deliberating for 2-½ days following a nine-day trial preceded by three days of jury selection.

Jones will be sentenced April 13 by Judge Kathryn Viviano to life in prison without parole.

Upon hearing the verdict, Jones began to cry at the defense table. He sobbed as he was escorted from the courtroom by sheriff’s deputies and could be heard sobbing as he waited in a holding cell behind the courtroom.
Jones and his family are “devastated” by the verdicts, he said.

“He denies all incidents of abuse of Ivy,” Weinberg said. “Ivy was the love of his love.”

Weinberg believes his client can win a reversal on appeal.

“We feel there are many issues on appeal that we hope will result in a reversal by the appeals court,” he said.

He said his client was prejudiced by the prosecution presenting evidence of Ivy being hospitalized for a mysterious ailment 11 months before her death, and there was no evidence of Jones contributing to that health issue.

Jones brought an unresponsive Ivy to his girlfriend’s job at a Roseville restaurant shortly before 6 p.m. May 3. Ivy was taken to Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit, where she died 14 hours later from blunt force trauma to her abdomen.

Multiple doctors testified a major vein in Ivy’s stomach was severed. A Wayne County medical examiner testified Ivy suffered many abdominal injuries.

Prosecutors argued Jones punched her in the stomach in the laundry room of their home before Jones took his girlfriend, Amanda Yurkus, to work at the restaurant where he later brought Ivy. He then abused her after returning home, prosecutors asserted, after Amanda Yurkus castigated him while he drove her to work after Ivy told he he hit her in the stomach. The fatal blows were retaliatory, they theorized.

Ivy also showed signs of other abuse. Her back and buttucks were severely bruised, and she had three bruises on the left side of her face.

The jury on Thursday reviewed the video and audio testimony of Ivy’s brother, who was 7, and testified behind closed doors, and Amanda Yurkus, who testified for over six hours.

Amanda Yurkus, her mother and other family members did not believe Jones caused the fatal injuries to Ivy.

A witness, Leah Pacholke, who testified early in the trial, attended the entire trial after she took the stand. She said she was there to support Ivy and took time off of her work as a flight attendant to attend.

“There’s no one here for Ivy,” she said prior the verdicts. “I’m here for Ivy.”

Pacholke, who is a certified CPR instructor, was dining at the Outback in Roseville where Ivy was initially brought and was the only one who provided some treatment to her at that time. She testified Ivy’s lips were blue and her breaching was “cackling.”
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The mother of a 4-year-old girl who a jury found was murdered in 2017 stood before a Macomb County Circuit Court judge April 13 to share the story of her little girl.

“Ivy was the most amazing little girl I have ever known,” Amanda Yurkus said of her daughter, holding back tears. “She was kind, fearless, loving, selfless, very independent.”
She shared a story of a time when she and her daughter, 4-year-old Ivy Yurkus, were eating at a restaurant. The little girl said a table near them who hadn’t received their food yet looked hungry, and she offered them her chicken nuggets.

“This world needed someone like her,” Amanda Yurkus said. “I needed her. She reminded me of all the good things in life, even when I couldn’t see it for myself.”
When given an opportunity to address the court, Jones became emotional as he said that his family and the family of Ivy Yurkus had suffered a loss.


“Ivy was my daughter,” he said. “I don’t care if it was biological or not. … I would never in my life hurt that little girl.


“That was my baby as much as anyone else’s. I loved that little girl with everything I have.”


Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Jean Cloud said that the evidence was overwhelming and it showed that it was abuse that killed Ivy Yurkus.


“It was horrific abuse,” she said.


The jury found that Jones had committed the crime, Cloud said.


“We all know child abuse doesn’t happen in public for eyewitnesses to see,” she said.


Cloud said the sentencing guidelines were appropriate given the circumstances.


Jones was sentenced to life in prison without parole by Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Kathryn Viviano, who said she was unsure of the words to say.


“This tragedy, it goes beyond words,” she said. “Nobody will be the same.”


One condition of Jones’ sentence is that he cannot have any contact with the family of Ivy Yurkus. Cloud also asked the judge to restrict Jones from speaking to his current girlfriend after Cloud and Assistant Prosecutor Joshua Van Laan said they overheard Jones on the phone from jail telling his current girlfriend that she needed to be tougher on her kids.


“I find it absolutely abhorrent and appalling that he is going to … that he’s going to be giving advice, parenting advice, to somebody and giving them advice to physically discipline the children,” Cloud said.


Jones said he wasn’t trying to tell his partner how to discipline her kids, but he was telling her about how his grandmother used to discipline him when he was younger. Castka said the defense hadn’t heard anything about these calls.


Viviano ordered that Jones not have contact with his partner’s children.


Amanda Yurkus doesn’t believe that the death of her daughter was solely Jones’ fault. Testimony during the trial revealed that several incidents that occured in the days leading up to her daughter’s death — events such as falling on a rocking horse while playing on a bed or being hit by her older brother on his bicycle — could have caused the abdominal injuries that were believed to have killed her daughter. While her daughter was complaining of pain and illness, nobody recognized that something was wrong, she said.


“Honestly everyone that weekend, including myself, had a part in this,” Amanda Yurkus said. “This man is taking the brunt for everyone’s mistakes. … She complained to every single person that weekend and nobody put it together.”


When she ended her statement, Amanda Yurkus handed a collection of photographs of her daughter to the judge.


“The love I saw in those pictures is the love I saw every day,” Amanda Yurkus said.
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Jonathan Jones, 29, stands at the podium during his sentencing Wednesday, April 13, in the Macomb County Circuit Courthouse in Mount Clemens. Jones was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2017 death of 4-year-old Ivy Yurkus.
 
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